Keywords: Isabella Gagarina by S.Zaryanko (1850s, priv.coll).png en SERGEI KONSTANTINOVICH ZARIANKO RUSSIAN 1818-1870 Portrait of Princess Isabella Adamovna Gagarina late 1850s oil on canvas oval 58 2 x 50 2 cm 23 x 19 1/4 in bears Cyrillic inscription on stretcher S K Zaryanko Morzenkova 1848 PROVENANCE Collection of Prince V N Gagarin Moscow before 1917; Khudozhestvenii Salon Mos-cultura Moscow no 495; Sotheby`s New York April 26 2006 lot 16 LITERATURE Vremia Sobirat Russkoe Iskusstvo iz Zarubezhnih Chastnih Kollktsii Time to Collect Russian Art from Foreign Private Collections Russian Museum Palace Editions 2007 p 68 LOT NOTES In her youth Princess Isabella Adamovna Gagarina 1800-1886 nйe Countess Valevskaya was a famed beauty Married to Chief Chamberlain Prince Sergei Sergeevich Gagarin the director of the Imperial theaters and herself a celebrated philanthropist and awardee of the Order of Saint Katherine 2nd class Gagarina was a member of the upper echelons of the Russian nobility Sergei Konstantinovich Zaryanko having studied under Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov was among the leading portrait painters of the nineteenth century and was even commissioned to paint portraits of the Imperial family for the Winter Palace http //www geneshapiro com/report shtml id 5127 late other date s 1850 Creator Sergey Zaryanko Isabella Gagarina by S Zaryanko 1850s priv coll jpg PD-old-100 Isabella Adamovna Gagarina Walewski Sergey Zaryanko 1850s portraits of Russia female Private collections of Russian art |